A novel which takes as its chief characters the world of distinguished people at the head of the nation - including the great lady of South Street; the eminent K.C. who earns a princely income defending murderers and the gay and roistering sporting Lord whose heart is always landing him in trouble. A very good, clean tight copy bound in brown cloth boards with black lettering. 818pp + adverts. View more info

Novel in which a young English woman missionary is shipwrecked on the coast of Labrador. Some wear/tear to cloth at spine ends. Front hinge has been reinforced with linen binder's tape. Small stain to fore edge but text block is clean. Undated but Sunday School plate on front pastedown dated 1898. 220 pages. A good reading copy of this now hard-to-find title. View more info

Clean copy with gift inscription to ffep. Signs of shelf wear & tear to price-clipped d/w. Part of the Music of the Masters series planned on novel lines, each book consists of a collection of articles discussing various aspects of a composer's work. Prompt dispatch. View more info

Another brilliant example of the power of Ackroyd's imagination as he pens a dazzling novel in the voice of Frankenstein himself. Flat SIGNED by the author to the title page. Clean square hardback in an unclipped d/w - 296 pages. Next post dispatch. View more info

Written with all the verve and humour of Jane Austen, the author charms us with further insights into the behind-the-scenes intrigues into the behind-the-scenes intrigues of the Mansfield Park set. Clean tight hardback with minor bumping to corners in an unclipped d/w - 317 pages. Next post dispatch. View more info

Historical novel set during the Great Fire of London. Part of the Everyman's Library series. Faint creasing to first few pages. Spine strip has faded. Text block clean. Binding square and tight. 476 pages + publisher's catalogue. View more info

Scarce edition, one of 2,000. Volume I of the novels of William Harrison Ainsworth Volume XIII. Generally clean copy with some light foxing confined to prelims. Gilt pictorial block of Windsor Castle to cover and gilt lettering/decoration to the spine which has sunned slightly. Top edges gilt and fore-edges untrimmed. Good square hardback showing light shelfwear and rubbing to spine ends - 248 pages. Next post dispatch. View more info

Novel whose central character David Norris was one of the 'war babies' born technically fatherless after the troops went off to the front in 1914. A very good clean hardback though slightly faded spine strip. No jacket. 378 pages. View more info

Unread copy in unclipped dustjacket which shows signs of minimal shelfwear. Historical novel set in Chile at the end of the nineteenth century. Complete number line - 304 pages. Prompt dispatch. View more info

Tense thriller set in the capital of an island in Indonesia some years after the withdrawal of the Dutch. Among the author's finest works. Previous owner's name to the ffep and odd spotting to page edges else a clean, square hardback in a d/w - 218 pages. Prompt dispatch. View more info

Booker prize winning novel set in South Wales which tells the story of old friends whose lives change when their friends Alun and Rhiannon Weaver return to the country after Alun's long career in London. Very good clean hardback in unclipped dustjacket - tanning to cream spine and rear cover. 294 pages. Prompt dispatch. View more info

Part of the Shilling Illustrated Books for Adults in Large Type Series. Not date though School Prize inscription dd July 1894. Generally clean and bright internally - 96 pages plus publisher's catalogue. Light sunning to spine. View more info